February can be misleading. Sometimes, here on the Roseland with our little microclimate, it can lull us in to a false sense of spring with warm sunshine and brave spring flowers. But...
January – often a calm month, although sometimes a gloomy month, with days of featureless grey. A little brighter here, a touch of mizzle there. And those bright, sharp days that are...
Roseland Online, December 2021 Winter colour. At a time when the weather is not conducive to spending hours in the garden, it’s tempting to think we don’t need colour to look at. ...
Roseland Online, November 2021 There’s no doubting one thing: the seasons move on around us regardless of everything that’s happened over the last 18 months, and our plants are telling us it’s...
Although it remains mild at the moment, summer is most definitely in the past for this year. Still without many of the Autumn Shows that usually mark the transition from summer to...
Roseland Online, September 2021 There are many, and we are inclined to agree with them, that September is the start of the gardening year. Summer holidays are largely over, the heat of...
Roseland Online Aug 2021 The changing weather patterns and the recent extended dry spell has got us all thinking about watering: how much, when, how to prevent evaporation, and all the usual...
Roseland Online June 2021 What a difference a few days make in the garden. It has been, and not just from a gardening point of view, a thoroughly odd and unpredictable moth...
Roseland Online, May 2021 In a nervous, not-quite-believing way, we are all feeling that Spring is here, and maybe even early summer, all at once. Since we last met, we’ve had some...
Roseland Online, April 2021 Apart from some unpleasant winds, it hasn’t been a bad start to the year, and in some respects, our gardens are looking very good. I think the spring...